Re: Why data serving on a mainframe
- From: Chim <ChimS1@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 21:07:21 -0700 (PDT)
On Apr 5, 7:15�pm, Chim <Chi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_wh/n/ZSW01811USEN/ZSW01811U...
January 2006
Why Data Serving on a Mainframe
First of all, from the business point of view, there are factors of
scalability, availability and security. But from the other point of
views in terms of competition, transparency, competency building,
migration to a service economy, Cambodian leaders need to make a
decision that define national purpose, and have the wills to leave the
past behind in order to speed up processing of transactions and
procedures.
A mainframe as overlay within the Cambodian government where all the
ministries and government agencies in the provinces can access and
share the data would provide a departure from business as usual. It
would send notice to everyone, workers, users and citizens that it
means business in pushing Cambodia into the 21st century. Such a
decision would have repercussion throughout the Kingdom.
In my days of mainframe consulting, I had the opportunity to work for
one state government in the US. There exist energy, consistency,
enthusiasm and relationship across departments. By getting big name
vendor into Cambodia, we would have more access to the computing arena
from different perspectives.
The IBM mainframe may not be available everywhere. However, for
business opportunities that are defined by key community leaders,
things can be worked out. There are several advantages of the
mainframe. Performance, reliability, high availability, security and
data driven. The languages that are available on the IBM operating
systems are also somewhat indigenous to IBM culture. However, there
exist several flavors of DB2 and they run on the mainframe and
servers. COBOL, JCL, IMS, DB2, CICS, BAL, PL/I are strictly IBM
languages and databases and they run only on IBM platforms. A lot of
people prefer C++ instead of COBOL because it's more universal and it
can run on different platforms and operating systems.
I like COBOL because it's more like English and it's as powerful as C+
+ although it's more financial, business and administrative oriented.
This is a completely different environment from Microsoft where folks
talk about Windows, .Net, VB, C# and SQL. There exist interface
software companies that are specialized in moving and transporting
data between the 2 environments. That still speak challenge and
opportunities in software development.
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